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100
Who is telling the story in the Scarlet Ibis?
Narrator
100
Where does the setting of the story take place?
Old woman swamp in NC
100
What is the story called?
Short Story
100
What are the problems in the story called?
Conflict
100
What is the problem in this story?
The narrator is ashamed of Doodle because he can't walk.
200
Who wrote the Scarlet Ibis?
James Hurst
200
What did the narrator teach Doodle to do?
Walk
200
Exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
200
To give an object human traits is called __________
Personification
200
A comparison using like or as
Simile
300
A comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
300
Name the characters in the Scarlet Ibis?
William Armstrong (Doodle) Narrator Aunt Nicey Mom Dad
300
William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite.
What figurative language is this and why?
300
Why did the narrator name his brother Doodle?
He crawled backwards which made him look like a doodlebug.
300
Who is William Armstrong?
Doodle
400
What is the meaning of the poem We wear the mask?
Several answers pertaining to the poem.
400
Who wrote the poem I too?
Langston Hughes
400
Why couldn't the narrator eat in the kitchen?
He was not worthy enough to eat with the whites, so they sent him to the kitchen when their white counterparts came over to dine with them.
400
What is the symbolic object for We wear the mask?
The mask
400
What is the symbolic meaning behind the storm, Doodle, and the Scarlet Ibis?
The storm swept the bird in from its tropical habitat and it died once it made it south to NC and Doodle was going through a storm his whole life because of his health condition and this storm cause Doodle to die.
500
What is the symbolic object in the Scarlet Ibis?
The bird the Scarlet Ibis.
500
What does the word scarlet mean and how does it connect to the story?
It means red and it connects to the story because the bird was red and when Doodle died he had blood coming from his nose and mouth which was also red.
500
Who wrote We wear the mask and what time period was this?
Laurence Dunbar and it was post civil war.
500
What does death mean in the Scarlet Ibis?
A tragedy
500
How is the narrator both nice and mean to Doodle?
He helps Doodle to accomplish trying to walk and he tries to teach him to swim, run, row a boat, and fight but he also pushes him to hard and make him feel bad by showing him the casket in the barn and rolling him over when they were playing in the grass.
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